The response to Jim Odato’s request for the same records was heavily redacted: The documents were full of black ink. Redactions by Amy Karp, who also handled FOIL requests for Cuomo during his tenure as attorney general, made it impossible to understand why someone used planes or helicopters during the governor’s first six months in office. She blotted out pickup and arrival locations, censored whole columns of data, and inked over the number of miles traveled and the names of at least 76 passengers. The spreadsheets have no category to fill in times of flight, which type of aircraft was used, who authorized the flights, the requesting office for the flight and the date of each request — all information disclosed in the documents provided by past administrations under FOIL. (TU)

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